kargatron
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It seems to me Occam suggests they postponed because they didn't manage to be ready by the intended date, and then launched as soon as they felt they were. I think run-of-the-mill unreadiness, rather than the iTunes Beatles date, caused the postpon…
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(Quote) I don't think you can really say that (unless you mean something unfamiliar with the phrase "world jazz"), take a look at the early years, it's dominated by the co…
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amclark2: (Quote) I think (a) is the key here. I don't have any trouble imagining that there are compensation schemes that favor the majors over the indies, due to different download patterns (maybe volume dependent, or weird bonuses kicking in a…
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I'm on annual through July, and I don't think I'll have a problem enjoying my subscription value-wise through then. But if limewire is still around then, and the departing labels still gone, I'll probably switch to limewire (and may sub there befor…
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I'd consider iTunes the benchmark, sure - don't they pay the most of any online retailers? Are there any examples of labels/artists big or not-tiny that are on multiple retailers but not iTunes? (I'm actually quite curious about that second…
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The only reason I can think of is an estimate that in a subscription model (which has fixed downloads), UMG's addition will provide one more download-sink that draws away from the indie dls. Perhaps they noticed a relative decrease post-Sony, and f…
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I'm guessing that ~hughes script just averages total tracks/total time, which is not very interesting, unless you've been a consistent scrobbler for a long period.
I'd love to see a tag/user joint browsing function (see a user's lib with… -
Stealing from a post I made on a jazz board, here are some noteworthy books covering later-period jazz:
Ekkehard Jost - Free Jazz (a canonical… -
Are you guys album listeners, in that your unheard music stacks up? We smart smart-playlist users have those unheard tracks just automatically percolate into our master playlists. Atm I have a total of 44 unheard tracks, 1/7 of what I've added in …
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My accurate count (not that it matters much) from iTunes, dating from Nov 2003, is ~122k. I didn't scrobble to last.fm for some chunk of time, can't remember why. Probably a better estimate of how much listening people are doing is to check their …
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Doofy, wow, that is a great deal (the Hancock set) - those are good records (I have the set on cd). But those that don't should take advantage!
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elwoodicious, I plugged in your user name and got 777/1000 - I can't understand how you'd get another number. What's the story here?
Fwiw, I don't really understand what the list of 'similar artists' is supposed to mean or imply. It's … -
Legality isn't particularly relevant to the issues most people here are concerned with. Legality and ethics have no inherent connection whatsoever, so, aside from concern from prosecution, why care or discuss legality regarding personal downloading…
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I think top 50 is fair enough, in that in represents a sizable chunk of your listening. You have to choose some depth limit - too deep and you get lots of outliers or one-offs, the limit of which just ends up being your artist count.
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Stars - The Five Ghosts is $3.99. Like thom (I think?), I think this is another fine album from them.
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Pessimistically, I'm guessing the first paragraph is referring to the adjustment that recently happened, to correct the blatant downgrade you suffered (your point #1).
I have a hard time getting worked up about this in general - I view i… -
I think most of those pie generators have "merge" lists, though unfortunately the tag cloud generator does not.
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(Quote) On the contrary, I'd expect anyone familiar with international/ethnic music offerings on eMusic to be intimately aware of the ubiquitous fact that they are tagged as genre=Reggae. It's a longstanding classic data ingest FAIL on emusic's …
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bremble lamented that Henry Threadgill's Too Much Sugar For a Dime is out of print, and so it is from Columbia, but it's now available in a new Mosaic set:
in What are you listening to now? (part 2) Comment by kargatron October 2010 -
Woods also did the bop solo tag at the end of Paul Simon's "Have a Good Time" in 1975. Oh, and Michael Brecker on that same album's title track "Still Crazy After All These Years".
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Btw, do any last.fm users know ways of browsing one's library in subsetted views? Like see all entries tagged (elsewhere) with 'jazz' or whatever? One problem is I don't tag anything myself, but practically all the music is tagged in the database,…
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There is one pro-sync argument that doesn't involve caring about metadata, and that's that syncing a dumb playlist gives you a list of what's on your ipod without having it connected, and control over what will end up on your ipod whenever you want …
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normalisr's cool, I've used it for a while, but unfortunately I think it only uses average track lengths based on some discographical sample rather than actual minutes played. I'm surprised and disappointed that last.fm doesn't do this approach alr…
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JUJ, presumably he's going in order and referring to the aforementioned Lehman.
Browsing mtraks, I see a fair number of decent jazz labels represented. Anyone compared that to limewire on that score? -
Yeah, good Les Savy Fav album, wish I hadn't already grabbed from emu! Really great live band, highly recommended.
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Is there an rss feed of Amazon's daily deal or other notable cheapies? I know there's twitter, but I like consolidating in Google Reader when possible.
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QFT = "Quoted For Truth".
It's a good point for many, I think, but I'm like Doofy in that I'm always comfortable with what I end up with - with the reduced downloads from the last change, it's more that I'm uncomfortable rejecting stuff … -
Browsing mtraks, looks like there's a fairly hefty portion of decent jazz labels there. Some obvious bigger indie rock holes, but not that big a deal to me. 30-ish cent tracks, and some reasonable album-pricing, looks awfully attractive relative t…